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Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by wyclif »

wpietri wrote: post #87
jcims wrote: post #34

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Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

Twitter too! When I worked there they jokingly referred to the head of product as the defense against the dark arts teacher, in that every year or so they'd disappear mysteriously and there'd be a new one. Most of Twitter's successes came from watching what users were actually doing and supporting that (e.g., at mentions, retweets, quote tweets). Many of their failures have been trying to graft on something irrelevan…

Eh, Twitter is not "rapidly decaying." It's faster and more fun than ever, especially if you're using it from outside the USA where they are adding capacity. Way better than back in the pre-Musk era when they were trying to cancel wrongthink and most of the hiring was focused on managing DEI instead of engineering.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by scarface_74 »

wpietri wrote: post #376
bottlepalm wrote: post #348

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This is kind of like the Twitter fiasco where in the eye of the storm a lot of loud people are pressuring more people to make this seem a lot bigger than it is. Unless you have some alternative that has Reddit functionality, but can somehow operate without revenue, I'm just going to assume there isn't and Reddit will continue operating as normal. Just doing the math $2.50 seems reasonable if you're going to redistrib…

If Reddit just cared about having the ads, they could have a free version of the API that includes the inline ads. Or otherwise work with API users to blend in the ads for user-facing clients. They could even kick back a share of that revenue to client makers. As far as I know they're not doing any of that. To me it looks like the goal is to wall off all the user-generated content in an attempt to extract maximum dol…

The easiest method is don’t have a free version at all and only people with a paid (ad free) subscription could use third party clients.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by specialist »

wpietri wrote: post #366
tomcam wrote: post #350

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How is Twitter rapidly decaying? I am a daily, but very light user so I may not be observing the trends as well as you.

Traffic is down modestly, revenue is down dramatically, outages are up, bugs are up, abuse is up, many users have departed, and the value of the company has fallen by something between half and two thirds. One of its core assets, the blue checkmark for verified notable accounts, has been permanently destroyed. I no longer use it, but word from my friends who still do is that is has become grimmer, less fun. Musk has…

Hopefully Musk will buy NewsCorp or Sinclair next.

Re: Reddit Strike Has Started

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

wpietri wrote: post #11

Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit. The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

Is it possible that reddit tried to pull of the same monetization trick as twitter, however they forgot to check with the target audience. And that public is really stretched financially, it does not consist of establishment figures who have an extra five dollars to spare for their hobby.

But how is it possible that the reddit bosses don't know who their users are?

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Post by rewgs »

WellThenGood wrote: post #491
JJMcJ wrote: post #480

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The joke definition of Web 2.0: You make the content, we make the money. Well, don't piss off the content makers, or the content consumers.

Uh doesn't Reddit owe its community 10% per sama's Series B article https://blog.samaltman.com/reddit ? "So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time." Whatever happened to this? Will we end up getting it before or after sama gives us UBI, open AI, and fusion completely altruistically?

Uh. Is that language legally binding?

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Post by dv_dt »

fknorangesite wrote: post #790
dv_dt wrote: post #415

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On Apollo, I have the UI configured to omit previews of images and videos, it’s also high density. It basically looks like HN.

The new reddit UI has - and has always had - compact options. I often suspect that the old.reddit.com sticklers never bothered to check the preferences.

I tried the new Reddit and it’s compact options near the rollout and a couple of times after; it wasn’t satisfactory. One was one of many reasons to keep using old Reddit and third party clients.

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Post by specialist »

mattkevan wrote: post #363
jcims wrote: post #34

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Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

I have a theory, after working for one of the UK’s largest social networks, that no-one who runs a social network understands what made it work or why it continues to work. Therefore they are extremely reluctant to make changes in case they break it (e.g. old twitter), and because they don’t understand it, any large changes they do make are generally negative (new twitter, Reddit). Plus, in my experience , users will…

Yes and: One of the hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast, who has also worked in social media, had a long deep dive into why casual efforts would ultimately fail, once the trogs invaded, for entirely non-product reasons. Moderation, DDoS, lawyers, etc. IIRC, they were explaining why they'd never host a mastdon instance themselves. Or maybe it was a viral app of the week with two young founders, who accidentally caught the tiger by the tail. Or both.

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Post by technick »

jcims wrote: post #34
wpietri wrote: post #11

Great! There's a picket line I won't be crossing. Not just for those subs, of course, but for all of Reddit. The reason Reddit is valuable is not the few execs making these (IMHO terrible) decisions. It's the thousands of mods and the millions of people creating and organizing the content that I go there to read. Until those people are happy with things, I'm not going back.

Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.

If you build it, they will come...

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Post by HWR_14 »

skinnymuch wrote: post #839
HWR_14 wrote: post #649

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Musk put over $20 billion of his own money into Twitter. If I put 10% of my net worth in a project, I care how it turns out.

> If I put 10% of my net worth in a project, I care how it turns out. Good for you and Musk! So proud of people who can put money into something and lord over it because of capitalism.

I should point out most people have things they put 10% of their net worth into. Cars. Maybe a house if you're doing very well.

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Post by thebigwinning »

asveikau wrote: post #541
tomcam wrote: post #350

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How is Twitter rapidly decaying? I am a daily, but very light user so I may not be observing the trends as well as you.

I don't know if this is true, but I heard that recently, searching Twitter for "cats" led you to videos of cats being mutilated. The story continued that Elon had fired the entire team devoted to preventing such outcomes. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-removes-autocomplete... Somehow hearing this story made me picture my daughter, 10, searching for cat videos.

A 10 year old should definitely not be on Twitter, even before Elon.

Overall this comment is weird to me. Does this show Elon was wrong and the org should continue being massively overstaffed and burning money like before?

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